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iAMkenough • today at 10:02 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

On the advice to junior devs to work intentionally and slower than their vibe-coding peers, I see an analogy to the advice given to student journalists at the start of newspaper subscriptions being replaced with online news access.

There will be a few developers that will work slowly and have the best understanding of the work at hand, but in my opinion the majority will be stuck at companies churning out whatever gets them paid.

Fast vibe-coded solutions that frees up time to work on more and more paying projects is what capitalism demands.

The Capitalism motivator rarely slows down by choice, because capitalism only cares about numbers going up, not people or their determination